AJC Global Forum 2024 News and Video

At AJC Global Forum 2024, two university presidents—Ron Liebowitz, president of Brandeis University, and Santa Ono, president of the University of Michigan—shared best practices, hard lessons learned, and ways they plan to create a campus atmosphere where everyone—including Jewish students—are free to learn, study, and engage in the open exchange of ideas.

Amid a massive surge in anti-Zionist and antisemitic incidents at colleges and K-12 schools around the country, American Jewish Committee (AJC) today announced at AJC Global Forum the establishment of the Center for Education Advocacy. The Center will work to transform educational spaces for Jewish students by preparing young Jews to be leaders in high school, college, and beyond; working with university presidents, trustees, and faculty as well as K-12 administrators to create academic environments where Jews and Zionism can thrive; and by empowering parents to advocate for their children and for the Jewish community.

In the face of skyrocketing anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate toward the Jewish state and the Jewish people, AJC CEO Ted Deutch reminds the world that the global Jewish community—with its strength and unity—will rise above the bigotry.

In a joint address at AJC Global Forum 2024, AJC CEO Ted Deutch and Adam Lehman, President and CEO of Hillel International, underscored that Jewish and pro-Israel students on college campuses must be protected.

In the AJC Global Forum 2024 Monday Plenary, AJC CEO Ted Deutch sat down with University of Michigan President Santa Ono to discuss the dangerous rise in antisemitism on Michigan’s campus and the steps the school is taking to protect Jewish and pro-Israel students.

Ronald Liebowitz, President of Brandeis University, and Dr. Laura Shaw Frank, AJC Director, William Petschek Contemporary Jewish Life Department, talk about antisemitism.

AJC CEO Ted Deutch and Dr. Laura Shaw Frank, AJC Director, William Petschek Contemporary Jewish Life Department, sit down in separate conversations with the presidents of the University of Michigan and Brandeis University to discuss a range of issues on college campuses today.

After a school year marked by rising antisemitism, protests extolling Hamas and other terrorists, and shocking harassment of Jewish students on college campuses across the United States and around the world, American Jewish Committee (AJC) today honored three student leaders representing outstanding campus organizations with the Sharon Greene Award for Campus Advocacy at its annual Global Forum.

Hanna Veiler accepts the Sharon Greene Award for Campus Advocacy on behalf of the German Union of Jewish Students.

Barnard/Columbia student Noa Fay accepts the Sharon Greene Award for Campus Advocacy.

AJC presented its Sharon Greene Award for Campus Advocacy to three outstanding organizations.

American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) in North America today announced an historic partnership aimed at forging closer ties between Israeli and American Jewish teens and addressing growing rates of antisemitism in private non-Jewish high schools.

American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) in North America announced a historic partnership at AJC Global Forum 2024 aimed at forging closer ties between Israeli and American Jewish teens and addressing growing rates of antisemitism in private high schools.

Following Hamas’ brutal massacre on October 7, antisemitism has risen to distressing levels around the world. At this unprecedented time, American Jewish Committee (AJC), the global advocacy organization for the Jewish people, has brought together Jewish communities worldwide in a united Global Call to Action Against Antisemitism.

At AJC Global Forum 2024, world leaders from Africa, Europe, and North and South America joined a panel moderated by Melanie Maron Pell, AJC Chief Field Operations Officer, to address the dangerous rise in antisemitism over the last eight months.